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Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?



On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:18, richard@the-place.net wrote:
> On second thoughts, ghostscript and friends.  My wife called me this
> morning from London to ask how to make a pdf from her m$word at work.
> Easy: take the file home and read it into any Linux app.  Definitely the
> fact that _any_ app in Linux can write ps or pdf is one of the killer
> features.  Which makes my killer app:
>                       ps2pdf

Blah, install pdf writer under Windows. As easy as kprinter.

There is no "killer app for linux"...if you mean a killer free software app, 
then firefox or openoffice. 

"Linux" is really just a convenient, nearly-crashfree environ where we have 
total control. You can piece together most things on BSD or even Windows.



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